At Basel al-Sati’s souvenir shop in a central Damascus market, socks bearing caricatures that ridicule ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad and his once feared family now sell like hot cakes. “I want to bring joy to people who’ve been deprived of happiness for so many days and...

Public Security forces thwarted a riot attempt by a number of prisoners at Izraa Central Prison in the Daraa countryside, sources revealed on Tuesday. Specialized units were able to control the situation without any injuries among the officers or prisoners, according to an official security...

On June 28, 2014, the first day of Ramadan, Abdul Aziz Haitham Omar Agha, a 32-year-old Syrian man, was arrested at the al-Qutayfah checkpoint in the Damascus countryside while attempting to leave the country for Turkey. He was accompanied by his wife, two young children (one less than two...

Gaza mediator Qatar on Sunday rejected comments from Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that it needed to “stop playing both sides” in truce negotiations. Qatar “firmly rejects the inflammatory statements... which fall far short of the most basic standards of political and...